Cheryl Edwards has bred only Top Quality Dogs for over 25 years and the Terrier temperament has always fascinated her. There are over 30 different breeds of Terriers and as a group they are all alert, intelligent, feisty, athletic, healthy and strong. The modern Purebred Kennel Club Registered Parson Russell Terrier is the absolute epitome of the ideal terrier and should exhibit all these virtues in spades. Stock from Champion Showdogs helps to assure these virtues are present because you cannot show an unsound nor unfriendly Terrier and get away with it for very long.
Unfortunately, we found that the smaller hunt
clubs we used to belong to, like the JRTCA,
JRTCC and the CJRTA , were (and still are, in
our opinion) advocating out-cross breeding
for mainly hunting qualities and are not
concentrating enough on proper conformation
and friendly temperaments. Along with ill-
informed, backyard breeders, they create a
lot of out-of-proportion, yappy,
unmanageable,
and overly-aggressive dogs which often give
the breed a bad name (eg. the Bad Dog Talk
published by the JRTCA Hunt Club). 
The Bowery does not subscribe to the "The Bad
Dog Talk" and we believe it a very poor
rational-ization for what is basically poor
breeding. A wise old terrier man once told me
that they will all hunt. What he meant was,
that if properly trained, a Russell's natural
hunting ability will come through. Some
breeders/hunters do not want to bother with
all the time that training takes so they only
breed good hunters to good hunters and what
they often end up with is natural born
killers.If the hunting of fur bearing animals is legal in your area and the only reason you want a Russell is to go hunting, then you should contact one of the breeders in a hunt-oriented club and find out what hunting with terriers is all about. Aggressive hunting dogs, ready and willing to kill anything that moves, do not make very good show dogs and they are definitely not bred to be around other pets.
When contacting any Russell breeder ask them
if they regularly hunt their terriers? If the
answer is yes, ask them if they breed to
propagate hunting characteristics? Listen
well, then tell them that what you really want
is a sound and friendly temperament so the dog
won’t attack your kids or kill your other
pets. Then, sit back and watch them back track
on the aggressive hunting characteristics they
have always bred for and start to tell you
what nice and friendly pets they will make in
spite of their history of breeding for mainly
aggressive hunting qualities. 
Cheryl has bred and shown more AKC Champion
Russells than anyone, anywhere and she breeds
only the very best, top winning Parson Russell
Terriers in the world but the Bowery's real
claim to fame is our sound and friendly
temperaments. We insist on it and we breed for
it. Our dogs are and always will be people
oriented and very friendly. Their uncanny
intelligence, natural instincts and
inquisitive nature are not to be feared but
will be very much appreciated by any fun
loving family. A Maddog WEB Design ©1999 . All rights reserved.
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